Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:52:05AM -0400, Jose wrote:
> P5AD2-E
> intel centrino2
>
> - Intel 925XE chipset
> - Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU
> - Dual-Channel DDR2 533
> - Intel PAT
> - PCI Express Architecture
> - Gigabit LAN

The intel 925XE is one of those crap intel chipsets that can't address
more than 4GB, so since PCI needs some of that 4GB address space, you
can't have more than about 3.2GB available.  The max physical ram you
can plug into the system is in fact 8GB, but you still can't use more
than 3.2GB or so on it making that rather pointless.

Newer intel chipsets eventually fixed this stupidity.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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